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Why I Trust Wolves More Than Humans
They aren’t bullies! How the wild wolves stopped me from feeling less about myself.
Wolves have a bad rap. Hated. Tortured. Poisoned. Misunderstood. Little Red Riding hood didn’t help much as this story put the fear of death-by-predator into our young minds. But I will not dig into what happens to wolves in this day and age . . . that’s not my purpose.
Because of my experiences with wild wolves, I hope to share with you how I stopped the bullying and learned to live a more cohesive life.
Wolf Dynamics
Wolves are predators and have a highly sophisticated social structure that relies on community within their own families. They also are experts on the concept of fair boundaries.
This concept is something that we often time forget as humans. We gossip, we bully, we dictate the business and actions of others when in reality it is no business of ours.
These human traits are not apparent in the family structure of wolves, and it was refreshing to sit for hours watching and studying their movements. One could easily forget about being a human.
My experiences with wild wolves span five years of following their tracks in the snow, watching their movements via radio telemetry…
